[TowerTalk] Tower on a downslope

[Bob Thacker]

Depends on your point of view. I'm about 30' over the top of the hill
(1360'...pretty good for WPA) and it does kick B... in the opposite
direction, N. South towrds the Pole isnt as good, albeit, not terrible. The
lower antenna is at 40', the 402BA is at 50'. Cranked up another 20'  on the
EZ-Way makes very little, if any, difference. I'll take it!

73,
Bob,  K3GT

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> "Rod Brink" writes:
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>>When pointed east the horizontal plane of the antenna would clear >the
uphill terrain by only 20' or so.  Am wondering how the >antenna will
perform when pointed east.
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>HI Rod.
>I'm in about the same situation here. My tower is on the NE slope
>of a hill.  When pointing NE, my antenna thinks it's a lot higher
>and works great, but when pointing NW, it thinks it's laying on
>the ground and doesn't work so well.  It does work but not nearly
>as well as pointing away from the hill.  I can kick butt with the
>locals when pointed towards Eu, but towards JA I get mine kicked
>BAD!  73
>Tom W7WHY
>Tom W7WHY
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